Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Horizon
Speaker 1: Forbid Trend West.
Speaker 2: Let's go cook.
Speaker 1: I am Jack, and I'm thrilled to be joined by
Speaker 1: a special guest co host, DJ Daniel.
Speaker 2: Good mate, that's me baby.
Speaker 3: Happy for all my fellow Portland trail blazers out there.
Speaker 3: I hope everybody for twenty Eve.
Speaker 2: That's right, not today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I fucked up, you blew it and we
Speaker 1: we already recorded the four twenty episode for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Uh, same thing tomorrow, that's all I'm saying. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: saying that's all right.
Speaker 1: Hey, some people start early. It's like Christmas. Eve has
Speaker 1: its own tradish. Maybe for twenty Eve does too.
Speaker 2: Leave out milk and cookies for Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, start baking your cookies for tomorrow. That's
Speaker 1: before you bake yourself bro am. I right, put the
Speaker 1: cookies and milk out, all right. Horizon Forbidden West The
Speaker 1: Burning Shores has released and yeah, yes, five gamers are eating.
Speaker 3: Thank you for Thank you for reading my headline so effectively.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: I just doing my best to act like I know
Speaker 1: what any of that means. All I know about video games.
Speaker 1: Is from the c net article that says all the
Speaker 1: best video games are old and open opens with this sentence.
Speaker 1: I was like, right when I read the headline, I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, this is a forty two year old
Speaker 1: white guy. Turns out the first sentence of the article
Speaker 1: is I am old forty one years old to be precise,
Speaker 1: so good. I was all by one year. But anyways,
Speaker 1: tell me why you're excited about gaming, and particularly Horizon
Speaker 1: Forbidden West.
Speaker 2: The burn certainly will.
Speaker 3: The Horizon franchise is my favorite video game story franchise,
Speaker 3: followed closely by the Last of Us. The Forbidden West expansion,
Speaker 3: The Burning Shores is set in my hometown of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: A bit of a spoiler kind of for people who
Speaker 3: haven't played the Horizon franchise, but alas, it's amazing. It's
Speaker 3: this huge open area. It's a third of the size
Speaker 3: of the original map, so they just took the original
Speaker 3: huge map and added a third of that to a
Speaker 3: whole new area.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's amazing and introduced new mechanics and it's just I
Speaker 3: just you know, let me tell you something. This game
Speaker 3: is always pushing the envelope on how incredible video games
Speaker 3: can look and feel. It's some of the best mechanical
Speaker 3: expression that I found in video games. If you like
Speaker 3: the idea of hunting giant robots with a bow and
Speaker 3: arrow and exploring beautiful vast landscapes as an awesome lead
Speaker 3: character who doesn't take any shit from anybody. I just
Speaker 3: could not recommend it highly enough. The expansion came out,
Speaker 3: I will be streaming it later on Twitch so that
Speaker 3: if anybody wants to watch me go oh my good,
Speaker 3: then you can watch me there. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just another fucking great game that uh
Speaker 3: deserves some love. And so yeah, check out Horizon Forbidden West.
Speaker 3: The Burning Shore is released right now out on the
Speaker 3: PS five. It is so good and worth all your money.
Speaker 1: That sounds boring to me. I prefer Super Mario Brothers
Speaker 1: because I'm old and my opinions on video games matter.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the word mechanic a couple of times. Yes,
Speaker 1: what does this mean?
Speaker 3: Mechanic is just the way that you are able to
Speaker 3: interact with the video Mechanical expression is how you are
Speaker 3: able to control the character and how responsive it is
Speaker 3: to your controlling. And some games just don't have that
Speaker 3: as well. Some games are described as clunky or slow,
Speaker 3: like you're moving through molasses, but games like Horizons Forbidden West,
Speaker 3: and I could go on after hours about games a
Speaker 3: good mechanical expression, but her Verizon Forbidden West has particularly
Speaker 3: strong mechanical expression, meaning how you interact with the game
Speaker 3: feels natural, feels responsive, just a great game to play.
Speaker 1: Mmmmm, got it?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: How's it compared to the mechanics of Super Mario Brothers. No,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll stop talking about video games out of
Speaker 1: my depths, but that all sounds beautiful. I truly love
Speaker 1: listening to people who are passionate about video games talk
Speaker 1: about video games, because great, you guys are really good
Speaker 1: at conveying what is exciting about this new form of media.
Speaker 1: And I just don't have the time to put into
Speaker 1: playing video games. I think that was the reason I
Speaker 1: stopped playing, was just I didn't I felt bad about
Speaker 1: playing video games because of my own issues.
Speaker 3: Look the things in my own life that I've put
Speaker 3: to the wayside to make time for it. I think
Speaker 3: nobody has time to play video games. I recently realized
Speaker 3: that I have over three thousand hours in Rocket League,
Speaker 3: and that was a sad realization to come to. I
Speaker 3: love that game, but damn, three thousand hours of my
Speaker 3: life have been dedicated to one game and that hurts
Speaker 3: my feelings a little bit. Wouldn't trade it for anything else, though. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I watched a lot of movies.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of TV, listen to music like all,
Speaker 1: you know, I just chose where, Like I was, like,
Speaker 1: these things, when I spend a lot of time on them,
Speaker 1: don't make me feel bad about myself. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to like, for instance, this next story, Twilight is getting
Speaker 1: rebooted as a TV series. I've spent at least three
Speaker 1: thousand hours watching the Twilight franchise.
Speaker 2: Your big team Edward, right, Oh, come on.
Speaker 1: Is there any like I think the I think history
Speaker 1: has spoken with regards to whose career has.
Speaker 2: Stood the test of time. I mean one of them
Speaker 2: became a deliver one of them is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this just seems to be a thing that's
Speaker 1: going to be happening for the rest of our natural lives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything is going to get rebooted into a TV series,
Speaker 3: And I mean, you know, just jumping right back to
Speaker 3: what we were talking about, Horizon is getting turned into
Speaker 3: a TV series. As well at some point, so lord knows,
Speaker 3: I will be here making a similar kind of statement
Speaker 3: about how awesome the Horizon TV show is. So yeah,
Speaker 3: everything is just getting recycled and put into different things,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I don't know, it sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not great.
Speaker 1: So another day, another innocent kid shot by a scared
Speaker 1: gun owner. That makes three in the last week, I believe,
Speaker 1: this time in Elgin, Texas, where two cheerleaders got into
Speaker 1: a car thinking that it was their uber or their
Speaker 1: friend picking them up and the person just opened fire.
Speaker 1: We've obviously talked about the child who was shot for
Speaker 1: ringing the wrong doorbell when trying to pick up his sibling,
Speaker 1: and there was one in upstate New York after that
Speaker 1: where people pulled into the wrong driveway to turn around
Speaker 1: and the person just opened fire. The gun industry obviously
Speaker 1: bears responsibility for how many guns are in people's hands
Speaker 1: in America, and I think the more guns that are
Speaker 1: loose in America, the more likely things like this are
Speaker 1: to happen. You also need to take a look at
Speaker 1: the marketing that happens in the gun industry, because it
Speaker 1: is all just these revenge self protection fantasies about getting
Speaker 1: to like people who are coming for you and your family,
Speaker 1: and then you know that are basically part of a
Speaker 1: cinematic universe with like the news that Fox News chooses
Speaker 1: to put out there and local news stations choose to
Speaker 1: put out there where they just overemphasize crime and make
Speaker 1: it seem like everybody's coming after you, and it's it
Speaker 1: is a nightmare and one that is getting increasingly worse
Speaker 1: because gun ownership just shot up during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: So not only did the gun ownership rise, but like
Speaker 3: the protections against gun companies as well. You know, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like it's kind of like the taxes thing
Speaker 3: that we're talking about tomorrow's episode about how there's just
Speaker 3: so much money behind keeping things the way they are
Speaker 3: and so much legislation that goes into protecting gun companies
Speaker 3: from any sort of legal recourse for the weapons that
Speaker 3: they put out into the world. As we saw in
Speaker 3: a Tennessee another story if you don't mind moving on,
Speaker 3: of course, yea to you know, so a couple stories
Speaker 3: in Tennessee as of late, there is two things have
Speaker 3: happened recently. So you may remember three weeks ago there
Speaker 3: was an awful, you know, shooting at a Tennessee school,
Speaker 3: leaving six people dead. Three of them were nine years old.
Speaker 3: And since that happened, one of the things that has
Speaker 3: just been passed into law, or rather it has been
Speaker 3: passed through the Tennessee Senate and is now on the
Speaker 3: desk of the governor is the permitless carry age being
Speaker 3: lowered to eighteen. And this is just the kind of
Speaker 3: thing that I've read, and I was like, first of all,
Speaker 3: I didn't even know permitless carry existed. The fact that
Speaker 3: you can just own a gun without a permit to
Speaker 3: own it, without any knowledge of how to use it,
Speaker 3: Like you can just go and buy a gun without
Speaker 3: anything else. This is stopping you in your way. It's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know a single place where you can drive
Speaker 3: a car without a license, and yet now, at the
Speaker 3: age of eighteen, you can carry a gun without a
Speaker 3: permit a handgun, mind you, but still it's like a
Speaker 3: weapon of murder in the hands of anybody in Tennessee
Speaker 3: the age of eighteen or older. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's just these kind of stories make me scratch my head.
Speaker 3: They make me really, really fucking sad.
Speaker 1: It's so flagrant.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's incredibly, it's incredibly flagrant. And similarly, another
Speaker 3: actual law was passed that protects gunmakers from lawsuits in
Speaker 3: the state of Tennessee. So like a little bit of
Speaker 3: context for that. Last year, Remington, the gun manufacturer of Remington,
Speaker 3: settled a lawsuit with the families of Sandy Hook. Now
Speaker 3: remember Sandy Hook was over a decade ago, and just
Speaker 3: last year they settled with Remington for seventy three million dollars.
Speaker 3: And the accusations were that Remington was advertising to young
Speaker 3: men through various forms of targeted product placement, also in
Speaker 3: violent video games, which I think is a separate discussion,
Speaker 3: but regardless, they're advertising through the means of reaching young kids.
Speaker 3: And Tennessee is like, well, we'd hate to see our
Speaker 3: gun producers face any lawsuit for the murder weapons that
Speaker 3: they put out into the world, and are passing loss
Speaker 3: to protect them from those sorts of things, And it's
Speaker 3: just like, what, what is the goal here? The goal
Speaker 3: is to the goal is to allow more and more
Speaker 3: production of murder weapons put out into the world and
Speaker 3: completely exonerate them of any responsibility when those things are
Speaker 3: used for their intended purpose on innocent people, right, And
Speaker 3: it's just I don't I don't know what where are
Speaker 3: we going, what is the what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the goal is to protect commerce at all costs,
Speaker 1: protecting arms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just really really disappointing. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, Ben Shapiro is doing his part worrying about what
Speaker 1: is going to happen in Frozen four. There there's just
Speaker 1: a great viral clip of him saying that if Elsa
Speaker 1: or Anna one of them, Yeah, I think he has
Speaker 1: a feeling that they might be a lesbian and is
Speaker 1: like and if they come out and say that she's
Speaker 1: a lesbian in Frozen four will destroy to Like it's
Speaker 1: just a very strange it's just like rant that he's
Speaker 1: going on destroy Disney.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just think it's a funny sentence because like, what
Speaker 3: do you think that could actually happen? Like, what steps
Speaker 3: do you think could actually happen that would destroy Disney?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean what can they possibly do? They're under attack?
Speaker 1: Ron de Santis was talking about building a private prison
Speaker 1: around Disney World, So yes, fuck Ron de Santa's fuck
Speaker 1: Disney too, But I mean for many other reasons.
Speaker 2: For many other reasons.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break we'll come back
Speaker 1: and talk about the Duncan menu is bringing back an
Speaker 1: old faith. Duncan Donuts had removed the butter roasted pecan
Speaker 1: swirl coffee flavoring.
Speaker 2: Much too much chagrin, I'll have you know. Is that real?
Speaker 1: You're you're you're a fan.
Speaker 3: Bro, I'm your fucking pumpkin spice baby over here. I stay,
Speaker 3: I stay drinking all them flavored coffees because you know what, Frankly,
Speaker 3: I need a little love. I need to need a
Speaker 3: little extra joy in my life sometimes not hurting anybody else.
Speaker 3: And if I'm gonna have a couple of pumps of
Speaker 3: some sweetness in my coffee, brother, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: And butter pecan is particularly pretty good.
Speaker 3: Hits the spot, a little little little bit of a
Speaker 3: tiny little bit of smoky flavor, that butteriness, making it
Speaker 3: a little bit more, a little more umami up in there.
Speaker 2: Hmmmm.
Speaker 1: Sounds delicious. This is also just very This seems like
Speaker 1: the most transparent like artificial scarcity example that I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: because my gosh, like this is it's not like the
Speaker 1: butter pecan crop, the butter pecan laboring crop, had a
Speaker 1: bed a couple of years and it drove the prices
Speaker 1: through the roof. It was just like, what could have
Speaker 1: possibly motivated them other than getting a news story out
Speaker 1: there that Butterburccan is going away and then bringing it back.
Speaker 1: But the classic flavor is later to return to Dunkan
Speaker 1: restaurants nationwide on April twenty six. Then it's back permanently,
Speaker 1: so we can all we can all chill out a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, who is the most I shouldn't say guilty,
Speaker 3: but who uses this tactic the most by far is Mcdonald'sonald,
Speaker 3: the McRib spicy nuggets.
Speaker 2: They could bring Seshuan.
Speaker 3: Sauce back and people would lose their minds, like all
Speaker 3: of these all of these little things that they have
Speaker 3: for a limited time only, and there'd be like, gang.
Speaker 2: It's back.
Speaker 3: It's like, bitch, you've had it in the freezer for
Speaker 3: years and you're just waiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Come eat piggies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, you know what, pink pink, Yeah, this little
Speaker 3: piggy's coming to the turf.
Speaker 2: There is a.
Speaker 1: Story that I think we even talked about. The McRib
Speaker 1: like availability was based on like pork futures and in
Speaker 1: retrospect and with some distance from that story, I feel
Speaker 1: like that has to have been planted by McDonald's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be like, it's driven by natural ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: and you know, normal ingredients, and it's not a marketing
Speaker 1: tactic at all. They don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And then just a couple stories about the LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: community being completely under attack. So Twitter removed protections for
Speaker 1: trans people from their terms of service.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did, and this was only discovered. So this
Speaker 3: happened on April eighth, but it was only discovered yesterday
Speaker 3: by GLAD. And here is the line as it reads
Speaker 3: on the original terms of Use or TOS terms of service.
Speaker 3: We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes, or other
Speaker 3: content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful
Speaker 3: stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or
Speaker 3: dead naming of transgender individuals. And that one line was
Speaker 3: just removed, and it's just another another you know, pawn
Speaker 3: in the war against trans people that Elon Musk is
Speaker 3: deciding to you know, insert himself into by being a
Speaker 3: fucking shithead and making more social media places a dangerous
Speaker 3: place for trans people to be. And it's just like
Speaker 3: another fucking head scratcher of who is making money off
Speaker 3: this such that you think that that like this is
Speaker 3: this is worth it?
Speaker 2: Like why why why why why?
Speaker 3: I don't know this is a bad person because he's
Speaker 3: a bad person, and that's all there is to it.
Speaker 1: There's an attention economy where you know, doing some edge
Speaker 1: lord shit gets him attention from the handful of millions
Speaker 1: of reply guys who I just kind of cornered the
Speaker 1: market of all the people who he interacts with. And
Speaker 1: then there's another story that Florida's Board of Education is
Speaker 1: officially expanding that Don't Say Gay bill. So Florida's Don't
Speaker 1: Say Gay Bill has now been expanded to cover all
Speaker 1: grades now, including grades four through twelve. So this bullshit
Speaker 1: bill was introduced under the bullshit premise that they need
Speaker 1: to protect children up to third grade from this idea,
Speaker 1: and now it's just mask off. They're just like, no,
Speaker 1: we actually just want to remove these people's reality from
Speaker 1: our reality and make it so that we don't have
Speaker 1: to honor their existence. So like, by their logic, this
Speaker 1: is a law to protect fucking seventeen year olds from
Speaker 1: the realities of human identity and sexuality. And this is
Speaker 1: of course Rondo Santis just trying to go harder and
Speaker 1: further the right than Trump, and this is how he's
Speaker 1: choosing to do it.
Speaker 2: Miserable. Yeah, one of the worst, really, really, one of
Speaker 2: the worst.
Speaker 1: Cool world. All right, Well, those are some of the
Speaker 1: things that are trending on this Wednesday, April nineteenth. We
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine. Yes, don't do nothing about white supremacy.
Speaker 1: And we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye. Peace,